Re: Transport ticket system collapses

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> "Ben Munro" <sporologist@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> | Tezza wrote:
> | > "Ben Munro" <sporologist@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> | > | I don't ever recall seeing a ticket machine in Sydney out of action
> due
> | > | to vandalism.
> | >
> | > So multiply your problems by the hundreds of thousands of passengers.
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> | Then you get hundreds of thousands of passengers with occasional
> | problems.
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> Exactly, that's all I've been trying to say.
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> | Not constant inoperation.
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> I have never said anything like that.
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> | That's nothing like the problems the Melbournites are complaining about.
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> I haven't commented on their woes, it was just that posters were trying to
> portray the Sydney machines as almost perfect when in reality they're far
> from it - like anything a government department buys.

Noone said they were perfect, just that they are far more reliable than you
are making out.

Dave